It's all about simplicity!

Monday, November 16, 2009

I hope the new look of my blog doesn't startle anybody.

I just want to keep it as basic as I can. I'd love to find a way to change the bar above to plain black.

Also, typewriter font would be cool.

I should keep this blog open on my desktop to remind me to write in it. Now, excuse as I go watch my daughter play some video games...

Greenspeed Folding trike

This folding trike video shows that cycling is evolving in new and unpredictable ways:

Sunday, November 1, 2009 [Salvation Army Recruits]

My awesome wife Allyson volunteered the Carter family to be Salvation Army bellringers.

So, if you're a Festival Foods friday, November 27, bring a lot of money to shove in our cute red containers!

2nd post

I'm definitely going to be way more diligent about blog entry publishing.

When people publish blogs, they're really living publicly. VERY publicly!!!

I'm sure that there are many people that fictionalize their blogs to make it seem more interesting. But I'm going to take the Henry Miller/Aaron Cometbus approach, and try to live an interesting life so my blog will be more interesting.
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Well, today was a pretty uneventful day. I spent 3:59 hours on my exercise trike, and went 58.6 miles.

I'm now the proud owner of a Schwinn 240 recumbent exercise bike. My old Schwinn exercise bike is now sitting, totally burned-out and dilapidated in my garage. I hope I don't burn the new one out so quickly.
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I'm definitely not going to bore my gentle readers by posting endless bike-stats like I've been doing lately. I'll just keep it simple with one sentence featuring the two major ride stats: time and distance.

Also, I've been inventing destinations so I can come up with a legitimate distance. For example, today I rode 12.4 miles to a restaurant in Menasha called Nauts Landing for a cup of coffee.

From there, I rode 15.1 miles to read some magazines at the Oshkosh Public Library.

I then rode 25 miles to St. Peters Lutheran church in Fond du lac to say a word of prayer...

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - first post...

Hello,

I hope my gentle readers weren't overly alarmed by my long abscence. I haven't published any blog-entries since September... I'm a bit disappointed in myself for being such a slacker.

I'm not going to bore you with my repeated exercise log-entries. I'll probably just have one daily total.

I rode that thing so much that I wore it out, and got a new one: Schwinn 240.

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This guy is inspiring:

http://www.keloland.com/videoarchive/index.cfm?VideoFile=101309eye

He competed in a 412 bike race across South Dakota called GutCheck 2-12.

It was a pretty amazing feat considering that He's got chronic back pain and Ulcerative Colitis (an inflammatory bowel disease).

Plus, he did it on a recumbent trike!

Surly bikes

If I wasn't balance-deficient, and could ride a two wheel velocipede, I'd consider getting a Surly...

II was watching some intense LPGA (i.e.girly golf) while riding my Schwinn recumbent exercise bike.

During the commercial break a very clever ad for American Express was shown:

It showed bunch of happy faces made by accident in a normal house. For example, it showed an iron's electric chord laid across a shirt on an ironing board. The buttons from the shirt made the eyes, and the chord made the smile.

I looked for the commercial on YouTube so I could send it to everyone I know, but, luckily, couldn't find it.

However, it struck me: If the said marketers knew a guy who, at one time, carried a badge of anti-corporate, anti-commercialism was going to send his loved ones this ad, they'd probably give themselves high fives of success!

Love,

Cullen

p.s. AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AMERICAN EXPRESS, AND AMERICAN EXPRESS!

p.p.s. Do you think it's working?

I found this on www.recumbentblog.com.

I like the line, "I hope my bike takes you straight to hell."

Here's a good website that has a very enlightened view of the government's "cash for clunkers" program

Old school?

I just horrified my daughter by putting a Dag Nasty cd in the boombox. I haven't heard it in years.

It made me want to look for other old-school punk cds I have (i.e. Minor Threat, Descendents, etc.).

I remember buying some of those when they were just released, and it astounds me that, to many folks, they're considered old-school punk.

Here's a really good cycling link:

www.mapmyride.com

You can use it to find cycling rides/routes in your area...

I'd like to apologize for my severe lack of blog entries. I'll try to stay on top of it.

I'm happy that some of you are impressed with my daily cycling stats. Here's more:


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Sunday, August 9, 2009
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Time Started * Finished:
- 8:10 * 8:50
- 9:54 * 10:26
- 1:03 * 1:13
- 3:26 * 5:03
- 6:56 * 7:30

Time Triked[Set]:
- 40[47]
- 32[39]
- 10[12]
- 91[98]
- 34[43]
[3:27]

Distance:
- 10.8
- 9.1
- 2.6
- 22.5
- 10.0
[55 miles]

Speed:
- 16.9
- 17.5
- 17.1
- 15.2
- 17.9

Calories:
- 294
- 255
- 71
- 537
- 289
[1446 calories]

Ride:
- Pike 15
- PYR 13
- Pike 15
- Park 14
- PYR 13

Destination:
- Neenah Family Restaurant for breakfast
- YMCA for shower
- Home
- Mellow Ride around town
- Around Town Again
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Monday, August 10, 2009
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Time Started * Finished:
- 8:08 * 9:58
- 11:18 * 11:46
- 12:08 * 12:54
- 2:14 * 5:20
- 7:00 * 7:40

Time Triked[Set]:
- 79[87]
- 29[30]
- 48[50]
- 71[77]
- 40[41]
[4:27]

Distance:
- 20.2
- 6.9
- 11.5
- 17.5
- 9.5
[65.6 miles]

Speed:
- 15.7
- 14.8
- 14.7
- 15.1
- 14.6

Calories:
- 499
- 160
- 263
- 411
- 216
[1549 calories]

Ride:
- Park 15
- Park 12
- Park 13
- Park 14
- Park 10

Destination:
- DePere Coffee
- Brown County Library
- Little Rapids
- Home
- St. Nicholas in Freedom
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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Time Started * Finished:
- 8:02 * 8:40
- 9:50 * 10:45
- 12:24 * 12:56
- 2:27 * 3:08
- 3:51 * 4:36
- 5:00 * 5:39
- 7:04 * 7:41

Time Triked[Set]:
- 36[72]
- 49[60]
- 31[36]
- 39[45]
- 45[45]
- 39[39]
- 31[37]
[4:30]

Distance:
- 10.0
- 12.0
- 8.0
- 10.0
- 12.0
- 9.4
- 8.6
[70.0 miles]

Speed:
- 17.1
- 15.0
- 16.2
- 15.7
- 16.3
- 14.8

Calories:
- 273
- 283
- 207
- 247
- 313
- 219
[1779 calories]

Ride:
- Rolling Hills 11
- Pyamid 7
- Cross Train 7
- Ride in Park 13
- Ride in Park 13
- Cross Train 10
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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Time Started * Finished:
- 8:25 * 10:21
- 11:36 * 12:01
- 3:30 * 4:17
- 4:42 * 5:24

Time Triked[Set]:
- 84[84]
- 25[78]
- 42[78]
- 42[42]
[3:13]

Distance:
- 23.3
- 6.7
- 10.0
- 11.9
[51.9 miles]

Speed:
- 17.1
- 16.8
- 14.7
-17.3

Calories:
- 648
- 178
- 229
- 330
[1385 calories]

Ride:
- Cross Train 10
- Rolling Hills 11
- Ride in Park 13
- Rolling Hills 11
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As you see above, I've added some random area destinations.

I did this to prepare for my future trike-taxi business. (I'll write more about that later).

Friday, July 31, 2009 [trike log]

Just so I can guarantee that I have something written in this blog everyday, and because I ride my recumbent exercise bike daily, I'm going to start posting my ride stats. I hope it doesn't annoy people. Actually, I hope people are awestruck by it!

So, today:

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Friday, July 31, 2009
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Time Started * Finished:
- 7:24 * 8:39
- 9:33 * 11:11
-2:10 * 3:13
- 6:56 * 7:43

Time Triked[set]:
- 1:12[72 minutes]
- 1:36[96 minutes]
- 1:04[64 minutes]
- 47[60]
[4:39]

Distance:
- 18.2
- 25.1
- 18.0
- 13.7
[75 miles]

Speed:
- 15.6
- 16.2
- 17.5
- 13.7

Calories:
- 448
- 657
- 506
- 390
[2001]

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I'm love cycling so much that I'm thinking of growing a handlebar
mustache as symbolic proof.

However, I'd like to give it a brand name. I'm unfamiliar with the
best bicycle handlebars, so I need suggestions.

When people compliment me - IF they ever do - I'd like to say, "Thank
you very much," and, then, pointing at my mustache with both fingers,
"Why it's a [insert brand name here] mustache!"

p.s. I'm sorry it's been so long (years ?) since my last post. Blogging is a good way to keep living in other people's minds. I hope you didn't think I was dead...

p.s. I just notice I could make labels for my posts. This is a great new option for me to abuse!

Friday 1-19-07 Art Cards

Hello gentle readers,

I make these construction paper art card thingies with my daughter. They're very modern abstract looking. They actually look really cool. I'm planning on framing a couple,

While doing this I came up with a terrific idea...Try to sell them!

***

On a much different note, I really want to help make cycling something that's very safe and something that people want to do. I discovered "Rails To Trails", which works on turning old railroad tracks in to cycling trails, and "Greenways", which builds bicycle trails.

I'd love to help these organizations as much as possible. And, since I'm totally poor, I thought I'd help by linking them in my very expensive blog. Yeah, I know, I'm such a cheapskate...

Jinbobobby Womy

Praise To Jingobobby Womy

A guy is eating in a restaurant with his sexy girlfriend [all of the girls in my stories happen to have this feature...IE "Sexiness"]. A family - Mom, Dad, Son, and Daughter - enters the restaurant and sits in the booth next to the couple.

They get their meal. But before they eat, they pray. However, they don't pray to God, like normal Americans would. The entity they pray to happens to be name Jingobobby Womy [I hope this sounds ridiculous like it's supposed to].

The guy sitting near the family happens to hear the son's prayer:"Dear Jingobobby Womy help me find my favorite Robo-mutant action figure. I lost it, and have no idea where it is!"

On his way out, the guy's sexy girlfriend spots the boy's Robo-mutant laying in the parking lot next to his cardoor.

He grabs the action figure, goes back into the restaurant, and proudly gives it to the boy.
"Thanks Jingobobby Womy!" the father rejoices looking up, with his hands in the air, towards heaven.

The End

My new weight watching regiment. "The Waste Watcher Plan"

I've come up with a new, brilliant weight management program:

See, a lot of people gain weight, and have no idea where it comes from. In my new program [I feel like I have to give it a name...I'll call it the "Waste watcher plan"], you keep a diary of what you eat along with a record of the weight of your wastes (both urination and fecal matter [hey, common now, I am trying to sound scientific] ).

You also keep track of your daily activity.

So, for example, I eat one and a half pounds of food one day. And urinate and defecate one and one-quarter of waste. If you do the calculation, you'll notice that you've gained a quarter of a pound in weight that day.

The next day, you eat one pound of food. And begin your exercise regiment chainsaw juggling while running around the block five times.

You eat one and a half pounds of food that day. You urinate and defecate one and 1.7 pounds of waste that day. So, that means you've actually lost some weight [0.2 pounds to be precise].

I think this is a brilliant idea. But make sure you don't reuse the items you pee and poop in for future leftovers!

A new holiday

I thought of a new holiday. It's sort of like a birthday, but it's called "conception day".

I can explain the holiday better if I write a fake conversation between father and son:
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Holidy? Hurrah!!!

Little Johnny and his dad sit the living room, among many colorful, helium-filled ballons, looking outside the front window waiting for people to show up to thier party.

"Dad, this is sort of like my birthday, right?," asks little Johnny.

"Yes," says Daddy. "It's the same, but different. See, Johnny, it's the day mommy and I made you."

"In other words," says little Johnny with a big smirk. "It's the day when you and mommy had sex, and your sperm fertilized mommy's egg."

"Wow, you sure are smart, Johnny," says Daddy. He, then, takes a deep breath, wipes his brow, and looks at little Johnny. "Since scientists have figured out that it takes twenty three weeks from conception to birth, I just take the day you were born and subtract twenty three weeks. And that's our new holiday!"

"Do I get presents?" asks little Johnny.

"Well, I'm sorry," Daddy says. "I got paid yesterday, but some jerk in the parking lot mugged me as I walked from the bank to my car."

***
What do you think of this new holiday?

I think it's a great idea. Unfortunately, I picture some anti abortion wackos foaming at the mouth, yelling, "See, I told you. Life does begin at conception!"

"Yes" To that I'd respond,"life for a loved child!"

What do you think of all of this, gentle reader [if I have any]?

1-05-07

I found this bike on the internet. It looks like a very interesting concept... A front wheel drive bicycle.

If I rode big boy bikes like I used to, I'd definitely give it a try.

The link.